Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 712 Breaking out of the siege

Not long after Taishi Ci raided the camp, Xiahou Yuan entangled him, while generals such as Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Yu Jin, Le Jin, and Li Dian led their troops to kill him.

The three thousand cavalrymen originally set fire everywhere, but were soon surrounded by Cao's army from all directions, making their position smaller and smaller.

Xiahou Yuan was very proud: "Taishi Ci, I think you are good at martial arts and you are also good at making plans. It would be a waste of your talent to follow a mere Liu Bei. Why don't you join my lord's army and live up to your abilities?"

Taishi Ci shouted, "Shut up! We, mother and son, have long received great favors from the emperor's uncle. How can we disobey him? Look at the arrows!"

He shot an arrow. Xiahou Yuan thought he had seen through the opponent's arrow and was about to block it, but he saw that Taishi Ci's arrow suddenly changed direction and shot to the other side.

"what……"

A soldier not far from Xiahou Yuan fell to the ground.

"You... why did you attack these ordinary soldiers?"

Xiahou Yuan was furious, but Taishi Ci sneered, "You and I are enemies, how can I not attack your soldiers? It's ridiculous."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and shot another arrow, killing another soldier.

"Wow, you thief, I swear to kill you!"

Xiahou Yuan took out a sharp arrow, put it on the bowstring, aimed at Taishi Ci and shot.

Taishi Ci leaned over the horse's back to avoid an arrow, and at the same time ready the bowstring. After Xiahou Yuan's arrow flew past, he quickly stood up and shot an arrow.

"System prompt: Taishi Ci activated his special skill 'Continuous Shooting' and shot the enemy twice in a row, increasing his archery skill by 2 points. His archery skill now reaches 98 points."

Xiahou Yuan was just about to use his longbow to deflect the arrow, but the moment the bow and arrow touched, a force so strong that it hurt his knuckles, which startled Xiahou Yuan.

"Why is this arrow of his much more powerful than the previous ones? Could it be that he was hiding his abilities before?"

While he was thinking, Taishi Ci shot another arrow. The speed was so fast and the interval between the two arrows was so short that Xiahou Yuan was very surprised.

In a hurry, Xiahou Yuan was about to turn sideways to dodge, but the sharp arrow had already flown in front of him and passed by his shoulder.

"This guy's archery skills are even better than mine. I can't just sit there and wait for death. Watch me capture him at close range and hand him over to Meng De for punishment."

He made up his mind, put away his longbow, picked up a spear, and rushed towards Taishi Ci.

The two men were only a hundred steps apart, and they rushed forward on horseback, arriving in a flash. Taishi Ci was not startled or hurried when he saw him coming to kill him. He took a double-headed halberd from the side of his horse's back. The halberd was more than seven feet long, with blades on both ends. It was indeed a rare weapon.

With a halberd and a spear, the fighting came to an end.

"System prompt: Taishi Ci and Xiahou Yuan are in close combat. Xiahou Yuan's basic strength is 94. His weapons, armor, and mount have been increased by 3 points in total. There is no special skill bonus. His overall strength is 97 points."

"Taishi Ci's basic force is 95, his weapon is upgraded by 1 point, there is no special skill bonus, and his overall force is 96 points."

In the first fight between the two, within less than ten rounds, Xiahou Yuan could see that the opponent's close combat skills were slightly inferior to his, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"Ha, your halberd skills are not yet fully developed. You are no match for me. Why don't you surrender early?"

Taishi Ci spat, "Bah, stop talking nonsense and look at the halberd!"

Spears and halberds flew up and down, like two dragons fighting, it was very exciting.

Xiahou Yuan spotted a flaw and thrust out his spear suddenly, about to hit the opponent.

Unexpectedly, Taishi Ci suddenly disassembled the long spear into two short spears, crossed them together, and clamped the spear tightly. No matter how hard Xiahou Yuan tried, he could not pull it back.

At this time, the shouting and killing sounds around suddenly became extremely noisy. Taishi Ci turned his head and saw that his 3,000 cavalry were surrounded by several troops. The shield soldiers in the front and the crossbow soldiers in the back were killed in pieces.

"Ha, that's the time!"

Seeing that he was distracted, Xiahou Yuan twisted his hands violently and freed himself from the restraint of the two halberds.

"not good!"

Taishi Ci hurriedly dodged, but his left arm was still cut by the spear.

"How could Cao's army react so quickly!" Taishi Ci was somewhat incredulous. It had been less than a quarter of an hour since he launched the sneak attack, and he and Xiahou Yuan had fought for less than fifty rounds, from the battle of bows and arrows to the battle of spears and halberds. It was unbelievable that Cao's army could actually send out such a neatly-formed army to besiege them.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan suddenly burst into laughter: "Haha, my master had already predicted your plan of a night attack. Now that you are surrounded on all sides, why don't you dismount and be tied up? When will you do that?"

"General Xiahou, I'm here to help you!"

Another general rushed over and swung a big sword to chop at Taishi Ci's head.

Taishi Ci shouted, "How dare you, a clown, to commit such a crime?"

He held a short spear in his right hand, raised it upwards, swung away the big knife, and then chopped with his left hand, and the general's head fell to the ground.

Xiahou Yuan could not help but get furious: "If you dare to kill a powerful general under my command, I will not let you go. Watch out for my spear!" He stabbed out with his spear repeatedly, and his attack was even more murderous than before.

Many cavalrymen had been forced to retreat around Taishi Ci.

"General, we have been ambushed..."

"Whoosh..."

A sharp arrow shot out and took the life of the soldier who was speaking.

Taishi Ci watched the soldiers fall in front of him one after another, his veins bulged and his eyes widened.

"You thief, you want to kill me, Taishi Ci? Let's see if you have the ability to do so! Soldiers, follow me and break through!"

He made a feint to force Xiahou Yuan to retreat, then turned his horse and fled, took out his longbow, and shot an arrow through the half-exposed head of a Cao army shield soldier in front of him. This series of actions was completed in one go, almost in the blink of an eye.

The morale of the remaining 2,000 cavalrymen, which had been low, was immediately boosted. They all surrounded Taishi Ci and rushed in one direction.

Not far away, Cao Ren, riding on horseback, issued new military orders to the messenger beside him.

As the command flag was waved, the shield soldiers blocking Taishi Ci's way immediately surrounded him more tightly, and spears stabbed out from behind. The sharp spear heads flashed with cold light, ready to devour people's lives at any time.

Taishi Ci took the lead and rushed to the front of the enemy army. Several spears immediately stretched longer, trying to stab him and his mount.

"Bah!"

Taishi Ci shouted loudly, raised his halberd and chopped off the wooden poles of several spears. However, the heavy shield soldiers were not afraid at all. Instead, they took a step forward in the blink of an eye and almost bumped into the hooves of Taishi Ci's horse.

Taishi Ci reined in his horse to avoid being hit by the heavy shield, which would injure his horse's hooves and even trip him. However, the cavalrymen behind him did not have such riding skills. Many of the fast cavalrymen ran into him at that time, knocking him off his horse and then being chopped into pieces by the swords that suddenly appeared from behind the heavy shield.

"Hateful!" Taishi Ci glared at the front, put the double halberds together again, and thrust forward fiercely.

Such was the force of his stab that even though the heavy shield was made of heavy wood and was extremely hard, only slightly inferior to an iron shield, it was still pierced by the tip of the halberd under Taishi Ci's angry attack.

"Wake it up for me!"

He used all his strength and actually lifted the heavy shield.

"Is this...is this a monster..."

"This heavy shield weighs more than 70 kilograms. He was able to lift it from a distance with his halberd. What a divine power..."

The Cao troops blocking the way were all stunned.

"Go!" Taishi Ci swung his sword heavily and smashed the heavy shield out, landing in the spearmen camp behind the heavy shield soldiers.

The two unlucky spearmen were hit by the heavy shields, and red and white objects flew everywhere. At the same time, Taishi Ci broke a gap in the heavy shield formation.

"Fill in quickly, quickly!" Cao Ren shouted loudly. As the command flag was waving, the heavy shield soldiers on both sides were about to move towards the gap. However, would Taishi Ci let them do as they wished?
He rode his horse forward and directly occupied the gap. At the same time, his halberd was split into two again. He shot left and right, and in a flash, he killed the two heavy shield soldiers on both sides and the three spearmen in front.

"Charge them!" Taishi Ci raised his arm and shouted. Seeing him so bravely and cutting a bloody path, the cavalrymen naturally fought bravely, like a group of tigers and leopards. In a moment, the heavy shield formation was broken into pieces.

Taishi Ci sometimes changed his bow to his halberd and shot distant enemies, and sometimes changed back to his halberd to kill the surrounding enemy soldiers and open up a way for himself to break out. He was very adept at it.

Soon, not only Taishi Ci himself, but also the cavalry he brought with him, almost all rushed into the enemy camp. Now that the two sides started fighting, the lethality of the cavalry was exerted and the encirclement quickly collapsed.

"I'm leaving now. I'll pay you back tenfold for today's humiliation tomorrow!"

After Taishi Ci fired six arrows in a row and killed the six enemy soldiers standing in front of him, the remaining enemy soldiers no longer dared to confront this brave enemy general and retreated in fear.

Taishi Ci then fled quickly with the remaining less than two thousand cavalrymen, and soon hid in the mountains and forests and disappeared.

Xiahou Yuan shouted, "Where is the cavalry? Follow me and chase them!"

"No need to chase." A short man who looked only about six feet tall walked slowly towards them. Although he was not tall, he walked like a dragon or a tiger, with extraordinary aura. It was Cao Cao.

"Meng De, why don't you ask me to give chase? Taishi Ci has less than 2,000 cavalry left, and many of them are injured. If we catch up with him, we will definitely capture him alive."

Xiahou Yuan walked over and asked.

Cao Cao smiled and said, "I think this man is a nobody, but he is brave and resourceful. He is fighting with a small force against a large one, so how could he not prepare a retreat route in advance? If we pursue him, we will be ambushed, which is not good. In addition, Zixiao, the war you built by imitating Gao Shun and Ye Xiang is still not mature enough, and you still need strict training."

Cao Ren immediately accepted the order, and at the same time, he looked ashamed. Xiahou Yuan also looked enlightened: "No wonder he chose the direction of the breakout so quickly and without hesitation."

At this time, Guo Jia said: "Is this probably just one of the reasons? The lord does not want to hunt him down, I think it is because he loves talent. He wants to leave a good impression on Taishi Ci and let him know who is the wise leader who can help him realize his ambitions."

"Hahaha, those who know me well are filial..."

(End of this chapter)